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Morning Newscast: May 26, 2008
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Governor Douglas to sign new domestic violence law tomorrow; pre-buy fuel contracts diminishing in NH; all over VT today, town bands are marching in parades and playing on village greens in memory of fallen soldiers.Vermont Edition
Mental Health Parity
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The Vermont House has passed legislation to strengthen the state’s mental health parity law. We talk with Rep. Mike Fisher who supports the measure. Also, we talk to Justice of the Peace Zeke Church about the job of marrying couples, and our series of audio postcards from Vermont towns takes us to Reading, population 707.VPR News
Midday Newscast: March 28, 2008
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Senator Patrick Leahy is calling for Hillary Clinton to withdraw from the presidential race; the Vermont Senate has passed a bill that would change Vermont’s 30-year-old current use law; more…VPR News
Vermont Edition interview: New Hampshire’s “tax pledge”
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It’s called "The Pledge" – and it’s long been the third rail of New Hampshire politics. For years, New Hampshire gubernatorial candidates have had to take the pledge by promising to oppose a broad based income or sales tax in the granite state. But this year at town meeting in New Hampshire, dozens of communities considered a resolution that would put them on record against the pledge.VPR News
Broadband network could be available by next year
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A broadband communications network could be available to residents of central and eastern Vermont by the end of next year. That’s the word from organizers of an initiative known as East Central Vermont Community Fiber Network.VPR News
School budgets fare well on Town Meeting Day
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Most school budgets fared very well on Town Meeting Day. Local voters rejected only 9 budgets – that’s the lowest number in many years.VPR News
The sounds of Town Meeting Day
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From school budgets to town budgets to presidential primaries, Town Meeting Day was one of participation and conversation. As we start to close the book on Town Meeting 2008, here are some of the sounds from the day:Vermont Edition
Reaction to Vermont Primary and School Budget Votes
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Political analyst Eric Davis joins Jane Lindholm for a final analysis of Vermont’s outcome in yesterday’s Democratic contests. Also, the directors of the School Boards Association and the Superintendents Association assess how school budgets faired across the state. And we listen back to some of the sounds of Town Meeting Day.VPR News